The Warlords (2007)

Original title

投名狀

Directed by

Peter Chan

Genre

drama film, action film, war film, historical film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

2h 07m

Rated

R

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 373 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Set during the Taiping Rebellion in 1860s China, three men form a blood oath as brothers. Their loyalty is tested by war, power, and betrayal.

epicbroodingintensegrittytragicvisceralsoberingsweeping

What happens

The Warlords (投名狀), previously known as The Blood Brothers, is a 2007 epic historical action film directed and co-produced by Peter Chan, starring Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Xu Jinglei. A Hong Kong-Chinese co-production set in China in the 1860s during the Taiping Rebellion, the film revolves around the sworn brotherhood of three men. The film was released on 13 December 2007 simultaneously in most of Asia, except Japan. It won a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film and a Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film. Li also won the Hong Kong Film Award and the Shanghai Film Critics Award for Best Actor, and became the highest paid actor in a Chinese-language movie, previously holding the record for his part in Hero (2002). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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